The Comic's Comic: Mark Normand

In this series, we ask comedians to name the comedians they enjoy. Then we ask those people, too.

Last week, Luis J. Gomez chose Joe List, who's appeared on Comedy Central and Last Comic Standing. Below, List talks about fellow comic Mark Normand, who was recently featured on Conan.

He was just another one of those comics on the New York scene. Back then, I thought I was really somebody. So whenever any new guy came around I was like, "Who's this guy?" I don't think I thought much of him at all when we first met. I'm not like that anymore. That was a personal problem.

We had the same manager, and from there we found out we had the same love of Seinfeld. It was one of those relationships where you just kept saying, "Yes! That's how I feel!" So we talked about Seinfeld and from there went on to comedy and just life philosophy in general. He has this joke about religion: "There's no WiFi in church. They don't want to compete with the invisible power that actually works." That's another thing we bonded over: religious beliefs.

He's the funniest person I know off the stage. He has this habit of taking his pants off in social situations. You'll just look over and he'll be standing there, pants around his ankles. Sober or drunk, either way. Just for comedy. I think everything he does, he does with comedy in mind.

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